The Durotriges, ‘fort dwellers?’ or Durotrages ‘fort runners?’, were a close-knit confederacy of sea-faring peoples in the south-west who controlled two major harbours, Poole and Christchurch, and traded with Armorica. Their territory closely matched that of Anglo-Saxon Wessex, centred on Dorset and defined by the rivers Avon, Wylye, Brue, Yeo and Parrett. Coins made at Hengistbury Head and elsewhere. 

Cranborne Chase. c.58-40 BC. Base silver stater. 17-20mm. 3.46g. Wreath and crescents./ Disjointed horse facing left, pellets above, coffee bean behind, pellet below. ABC 2169, VA 1235-1, BMC 2555-636, S 367. Nr VF, lightly toned silver, full coffee bean. Ex Nummi Regnum Britonum coll, acq. Teutoburger Munzauktion, 6 April  2015.                                                       Was £125. Now only £100